RHCOS 3 : Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.2 (RHSA-2016:1853)

high Nessus Plugin ID 311980

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat CoreOS host is missing a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.2.

Description

The remote Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:1853 advisory.

- libarchive: Archive Entry with type 1 (hardlink), but has a non-zero data size file overwrite (CVE-2016-5418)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHCOS Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2016:1853.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 311980

File Name: rhcos-RHSA-2016-1853.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/4/2026

Updated: 5/4/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5418

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible-playbooks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients-redistributable, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-dockerregistry, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible-filter-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:heapster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-master, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-pod, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-sdn-ovs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:tuned-profiles-atomic-openshift-node, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-recycle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible-lookup-plugins, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openshift-ansible-roles, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7:coreos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-node, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:atomic-openshift-utils

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5418

CWE: 22

RHSA: 2016:1853

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